More Jiaks

Damn. I'm just happily overfeeding myself. Instead of being discipline to go for my lunchtime swim, my plans have been thwarted either by last minute meeting arrangments with the bosses or just plain laziness. Sigh .... I was actually quite determined to swim on Wed but the mtg with boss lasted past 12. By then I reckoned the pool would be crowded, so another beautiful excuse to skip the swim.

Anyway, someone working far away came by my office area to collect something from someone else. So we met up for lunch. We ended up at this ramen shop that I've read about and passed by several times called Men-Tei Ramen. We eagerly joined in the short queue and the staff was friendly and at hand to take our orders first. The queue started to grow as we were waiting but were glad it wasn't a long wait and we were shown to our seats shortly after.

Their variety is limited and the ingredients are essentially the same (pork, some vege etc.). The differentiation is in the soup base, what with miso soup or pork bones etc. It was a very short wait for our food to arrive and well, to me the food is alright. We both ordered the miso soup base (with mine being the spicy version which turned out to be "spicy-deficient"). I'm happy with the bowl of spicy miso (not spicy at all) just as I would be similarly contented with a good piping hot bowl of instant noodles :P Guess the good bowl of ramen is wasted on me but friend commented the soup base is good. No complaints really, we both cleaned out the entire bowl of ramen.

Well, though I missed the swim, I'm glad I get to meet up with good company for lunch and chat away and spend some relaxing moments out of work, rather than just packing a sandwich back to eat in front of the puter. Alright, I admit. I'm a contented slacker! :P
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Friend and I been looking forward to this dinner. We've been working toooo hard @ work, with more shit then recognition. With loads of agony, frustration, irritation & even some back-stabbing, with little returns.

We left the office earlier than usual, was still delayed by some last minute frantic call from a user but we were just thankful that we could still leave the office.

Arrived at Dan Ryan, suggested by friend. Think the last time I was here was >5 years ago ? But the place has not changed a bit. I left the ordering of beer to him while I zoomed in on the food (hehe, what's new?). We had a caesar salad and this is what I had. Fish & Chips!!! The fish was good and very nicely deep fried with this very thin batter, and without that gap between the fried skin and fish flesh. I enjoyed it tremendously. The chips were a disappointment though. Not that it doesn't taste good or that its soggy or overly fried. Just that its not the chunky fries that I so miss :( But all in all, I still like the fish & chips. According to the waitress their fish & chips is very popular (main reason why I ordered).

Friend was stuffed by the end of his seafood platter, while I was still pinching at the bread in the bread basket. He was amused that I could really stuff myself haha

For dessert, I ordered their brownie with Ben & Jerry's ice cream while he was too stuffed and only accompanied me with a scoop of ice cream. We both chose cherry garcia but both hated it as it somehow had that almond taste that we both disliked. The brownie wasn't that fantastic, it wasn't piping hot and was too dense for my liking. It was an extremely huge piece too that for once Ms Piggie didn't finish her dessert!

It was a great nite out with great company, just yakking and bitching and pigging and boozing. A very superb way to end a weekday night and to welcome the holiday.